Abstract
We report the first Brazilian case of pulmonary invasive aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus lentulus, a new opportunistic Aspergillus species included in the section fumigati that is usually resistant to amphotericin B and azoles.
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This study received funds from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil, (grant 2007/08575-1) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil. V.R.A.B. received a master training fellowship from CNPq; A.C.B.P. received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil (PNPD 02640-09-0). A.S.A.M. received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil (2009/10155-6).
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Dr. Colombo has received research and educational grants from Astellas, MSD, Pfizer, and United Medical in the last 2 years. All the other authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article. The authors alone are responsible for the content and the writing of the paper.
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Viviane Reis de Azevedo Bastos and Daniel Wagner de Castro Lima Santos contributed equally in the present report and both are considered as first author.
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de Azevedo Bastos, V.R., de Castro Lima Santos, D.W., Padovan, A.C.B. et al. Early Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Caused by Aspergillus lentulus: First Brazilian Report. Mycopathologia 179, 299–305 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-014-9840-7
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